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David L. Paletz, Professor and Director, Film/Video/Digital Program

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Education:

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1970

M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1963

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 1961

Specialties:

American Politics

Duties:

Duke Liaison with the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Co-chair of the Selection Committee of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Editor of the Paradigm Publisher's Book Series "Media and Power."

Research Interests: Politics and the Media, Film and Politics

Professor of Political Science and editor of Political Communication. His degrees are all from UCLA. Dr. Paletz's specializes in political communication both in the US and internationally. His research focuses on the relationship between the media (defined broadly to include both news and entertainment) and American government and politics (defined broadly to include the public, institutions, and processes). He teaches courses on "Politics and the Media," "Film and Politics," "International Communication," "American Government," and "Politics and the Libido." He is the author of The Media in American Politics: Contents and Consequences, 2nd ed. (Addison-Wesley Longman, 2002), co-author of Media Power Politics (Free Press, 1981 and 1983), and of Politics in Public Service Advertising on Television (Praeger, 1977); 2003), editor of and contributor Political Communication in Action (Hampton Press, 1996); and of Political Communication Research, Vol. II (Ablex 1996), and Vol. I (Ablex, 1987); co-editor and contributor to Business as Usual (Hampton Press, 2003), Glasnost and After: Media and Change in Eastern/Central Europe (Hampton Press, 1995), Taken By Storm: Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Gulf War (University of Chicago Press, 1994), and of Terrorism and the Media (Sage, 1992); and author of some sixty other publications. He has been Chair of the Political Communication Research Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, Chair of the Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association, and a Founding Member of the International Journal of Political Socialization and Political Psychology. Among his research and teaching awards are a Congressional Fellowship from the American Political Science Association, Humanities Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, two Fulbright Scholarships, and the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award from Duke University. He chairs the Selection Committee of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. D.L. Paletz, Communicating Politics Through the Media: What's Wrong and How Can We Fix It, in Communicating Politics, edited by Mitchell S. McKinney (2005), pp. 95-106, New York: Peter Lange Publisher .
2. D.L. Paletz and Jill Rickershauser, Media, Violence and Terrorism in North America 1998-2002, in Media, Violence and Terrorism (2004), pp. 119-124, UNESCO .
3. Amy McKay and D.L. Paletz, The Presidency and the Press, in Handbook of Political Communication Research, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid (2004), pp. 315-337, Lawrence Erlbaum .
4. D.L. Paletz with Amy McKay, The Presidency and the Press, in Handbook of Political Communciation Research, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid (2004), pp. 315-37, New York: Erlbaum Publishers .
5. D.L. Paletz, Communicating Politics Through the Media: What's Wrong and How Can We Fix It, in Communicating Politics, edited by Lynda Lee Kaid (2004), New York: Peter Lang .